{"id":639327,"date":"2026-04-30T20:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639327\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:45:10","slug":"ant-mans-evangeline-lilly-says-disney-should-be-ashamed-of-marvel-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639327\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ant-Man’s Evangeline Lilly Says Disney Should Be Ashamed of Marvel Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evangeline Lilly
\n Shame On You, Disney …
\n Don’t Fire the People Who Built Marvel!!!<\/p>\n

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\n April 30, 2026
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Evangeline Lilly<\/a>‘s stepping up to defend the real superheroes behind the Marvel characters onscreen … blasting parent company Disney for letting some high-profile crew go.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal … the House of Mouse recently laid off about 1,000 staffers amid some notable shakeups at the company — including the exit of CEO Bob Iger<\/a> — and comic book artist Andy Park, who worked on 40+ Marvel movies, was one of them.<\/p>\n

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In a video posted to social media, Lilly says she reached out to her friend — who helped bring her character’s superhero costume to life, she says — about the firings and a pivot toward A.I. … and, she says Park confirmed her worst fears.<\/p>\n

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She says she feels horrible for Andy and so many others who have worked for years to add verisimilitude to the outlandish science-fiction and fantasy storylines cooked up by Marvel creatives.<\/p>\n

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Lilly notes the unfair nature of A.I. taking the work these people have dedicated their lives to in order to spit out a cheaper version of the work … and says her former employer really screwed up here.<\/p>\n

She wrote in her caption, \u201cDisney,\u00a0SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As you know … Lilly starred as Hope van Dyne in multiple Marvel movies — including “Ant-Man” and “Avengers: Endgame.” She announced she was putting a pause on her career to focus on family in 2024.<\/p>\n

We’ve reached out to Disney … so far, no word back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evangeline Lilly Shame On You, Disney … Don’t Fire the People Who Built Marvel!!! Published April 30, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-639327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}